Local Anchor Rips Viewers Who Complained About ‘Once Upon A Time’ Getting Interrupted For Tornado Coverage

Here’s a clip of Sioux Falls news anchor Nancy Naeve chastising viewers who called in to complain about the station interrupting Sunday’s two-hour Once Upon a Time season finale with live tornado coverage. I love this clip, not necessarily because her rant is that great, but because I find it hilarious that there are people out there who actually did this. Apparently lots of them. Like, don’t get me wrong, I get it. I’d be upset — temporarily, at least — if this had happened to me during Parks & Recreation or something, but I like to think I’d be able to take a deep breath and calm down before I got to the point where I actually called to complain about coverage of a natural disaster interrupting my stories. Probably. Maybe.

Anyway, the funniest thing about this is imagining one of these people get lifted off the ground by the tornado and swirled around the funnel as they continued complaining about what an inconvenience the natural disaster was.

“Why couldn’t the tornado have hit during the commmmmmmerrrrrrrrrciallllllllllllllllll?”

I have no issue with channels cutting into a show with coverage of emergency weather alerts but when they cut into a show like 5 times and don’t give you any new information then there’s really no point.

I guess I kind of get it. When you are disconnected from the rest of the world you don’t really see why anyone would care about events that don’t concern them directly. I remember when I was still a kid and stupid(well more stupid then now) and the whole 9/11 thing happened. All I could think off then was fine ok. Some stupid building in America fell down. Why should this concern me and cause me to miss the new episode of Buffy?

I remember when the Sienfeld episode from the final season when they got caught in a traffic jam our local news cut in with the breaking news of a 5 mile long traffic jam on local I-90. It was an odd alignment in meta-stupidity.

My issue with this is the same for when there’s some national crisis and the president comes on to spend 15 minutes saying they don’t know anything. It they have no new information they’re just being attention whores.

Okay, I live in Iowa, and the ONLY time they break in is when there is a tornado. Most of the time they just keep a little map and scroll at the top. When these tornados happened Sunday night, we were in a situation where we had spin ups and tornadoes showing up all over every 10 min or so, and they were going crazy just trying to keep up. There was also straight line winds from 60-80mph. So, in this situation, the people who called to complain were pretty much piles of shut.

Its a pretty ridiculous that these people called in about it, but at the same time these newscasters need to back the self aggrandizing truck back up a little. He “literally saved lives!”, “Give me a high five”…please. All he did was get more face time while sitting in a chair reading someone else’s copy off the teleprompter, something that a tornado warning banner would have accomplished the same thing. Or I don’t know, look out the dang window. Chill out newscasters, first responders you are not.

Having worded in news, I can tell you that the entire point is the commercial that comes 1 day later… “Only Channel 4 went WALL to WALL with storm coverage!!!11!!” People are dicks, yes, but the stations are worse.